Bull’s Head – Group C

Bull's Head Line Drawing, Group C
Line Drawing, Group C
Overlay animation of Arundel ff. 161-168 and Arundel ff. 109-110 (Group A and Group C)
Overlay animation of Arundel ff. 109-110 and Arundel ff. 161-168 (Group C and Group A)

Description: A bull’s head seen from the front, with horns, large eyes with pupils, ears, and a flower stem extending up from the top of the head.

Description of difference: The bull in Group C has level horn tips, which distinguish it from Group A. The close-set eyes are also more level than in Group A. No flower is visible on the stem.

Briquet Comparison: B 14950B 14951B 14430B 14431, and B 14432.[1]

Found in folios: Arundel ff. 109-110.

Potential Twins: N/A

[1] Because similarities to Briquet’s watermarks continue to be included in the literature, they have been cited here. Briquet comparisons were extracted from Carlo Pedretti and Carlo Vecce in “Apparati IV, V, Filigrane,” Il Codice Arundel 263 nella British Library: edizione in facsimile nel riordinamento cronologico dei suoi fascicoli (Florence: Giunti, 1998), 58-61; Carlo Pedretti, The Codex Hammer of Leonardo da Vinci, translated into English and annotated by Carlo Pedretti (Florence: Giunti Barbèra, 1987); Carmen C. Bambach in Leonardo da Vinci Rediscovered, 4 vols. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2019); and Juliana Barone, ed., Leonardo da Vinci: A Mind in Motion, exh. cat. (London: The British Library, 2019).

Arundel ff. 109-110

Available images (below):
– De-noised image of watermark in Arundel ff. 109-110
– Overlay animation of Arundel ff. 109-110 and Arundel ff. 161-168 (Group C and Group A)
– Overlay animation of Arundel ff. 109-110 and Arundel ff. 244-247 (Group C and Group A)
– Overlay animation of Arundel ff. 109-110 and Arundel ff. 279-280 (Group C and Group A)

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Arundel ff. 109-110 - De-noised
Arundel ff. 109-110 - De-noised
Overlay animation of Arundel ff. 161-168 and Arundel ff. 109-110 (Group A and Group C)
Overlay animation of Arundel ff. 109-110 and Arundel ff. 161-168 (Group C and Group A)
Overlay animation of Arundel ff. 109-110 and Arundel ff. 244-247 (Group C and Group A)
Overlay animation of Arundel ff. 109-110 and Arundel ff. 244-247 (Group C and Group A)
Overlay animation of Arundel ff. 109-110 and Arundel ff. 279-280 (Group C and Group A)
Overlay animation of Arundel ff. 109-110 and Arundel ff. 279-280 (Group C and Group A)